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Join the Filipino and Philippine Studies Working Group for an evening with three prolific Filipina writers. Mia Alvar is a New York-based writer and educator. Her debut collection of short stories, In the Country (2015), has made the top book lists of the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Huffington Post, among many others. Aimee Suzara is a Bay Area-based poet and playwright, whose debut collection of poetry, Souvenir (2014), has been lauded for its poetic documentation of the “living exhibits” of Filipinos at the 1904 World’s Fair. Finally, Dr.